The West
Gave 160 acres of free land within the public domain to the head of any household who would settle on it and improve the land for at least 5 years.
Homestead Act
What two inventions forever change the lives of women in the economy?
typewriter and telephone
Americans felt threatened by the new wave of immigrants between 1880-1914 because:
The proportion of immigrants to native born Americans greatly shifted
Which muckraker wrote the following: “There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption (tuberculosis) germs?”
Upton Sinclair
What was one cause of the Spanish-American war?
Yellow Press; The sinking of Lusitania
One of the new forms of technology used during WWI
Flamethrower; airplane; U-Boat
young women that embraced change in fashion and behavior.
Flappers
These helped to make the “long drive” economically feasible and transported cattle to markets in the North and East
railroads
Rockefeller is to oil as Carnegie is to…
Steel
In 1890, Jacob Riis vividly portrayed life in American urban slum in his work?
How the Other Half Lives
This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive (domestic policy)
Square Deal
A country whose affairs are controlled by a stronger power.
Protectorate
The Selective Service Act was the first:
military draft
a celebration of African American culture in art and music.
Harlem Renissance
Land ownership was not essential to life and culture of which group of people
Native Americans
Trusts could be harmful to consumers because:
They raised prices in the industry they control
This group of people were concerned about immigration to the United States because of language, race, and religion
Nativists
This was the principle that guided Roosevelt’s efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas and make national parks
Conservation
The idea which stated that there could be no European expansion into the western hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Who was the President of the United States during WW I?
Woodrow Wilson
The panic surrounding the threat of communism in the early 1920s was called the
Red Scare
the leader of the allied tribes that lived in the Dakotas.
Sitting Bull
This man developed a train car that improved passenger comfort for long trips. His train car included a sofa that converted into a bed.
George Pullman
Some American workers felt threatened by Chinese immigration because Chinese workers would
Work for lower wages
Regarding the election of 1912, what was the short term effect of the Progressive Party splitting with the Republican Party?
The Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won the election due to the Republican vote being split.
The early policy of the United States which implied that our country should stretch to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
What were the main causes of WWI?
Militarism; Alliances; Imperialism; Nationalism
To obtain liquor illegally drinkers went to hidden nightclubs called
Speakeasies
authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native American Indians who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
The Dawes Act
Group negotiations between workers and employees
Collective Bargaining
Major place of entry on the east coast for most European immigrants
Ellis Island
This agency was given the power to investigate unfair business practices and to issue orders to “cease and desist”
Federal Trade Commision
The landmark case that upheld Jim Crow laws; cited the doctrine of separate but equal; evidence of the failure of Civil War Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
The United States Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and instead made a separate peace with Germany because:
Senators feared that the treaty and the League of Nations would endanger American sovereignty and tie the U.S. to European problems
allowed individuals of the 1920s to afford the new luxury items by allowing them to put a small amount down and then make small monthly payments.
Installment Plans